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1 , i h ai jS X . is- "h S3 " o c O c3-h oj w J ! This'ARGUS o'er the people's lights, No soothing str &.ins of laia's sun. Can lull its hundred eyes to sleep M JJoth an eternal vigil keep Vol. XVI. GOIiDSBORO.. N. C. THURSDAY OCTOBER 25.-1894. NO. 50 03 c3 ft 1 I 1 i u Y ifr 6 . ....... Sg-'JQ fl) e X t WHAT POPULISM DOKS. Wo call attention to an address from the business men of Den ver, which is published in this is sue. It comes from five thousand representative citizens of Colora do's capital, Democrats, Republi cans and late Populists. It shows how Populism has cursed and blighted Colorado and gives a startling statement of the shrink age of values which has resulted from the wild rule of Governor Vjijt.. ;iitt jn fUv cv;niK'S. : 1 1 y f ! i r rs :;; . .l..r;i.io s-u U 1 1 1 x t t N-" Vii iii ill--burrowing power of lier prop erty. Now things have come to such a pass that one dollar can not be borrowed to move five dollars' worth of gold ore to the smelter. The Denver merchants, in their address, state distinctly that the reduced price of silver is not re sponsible for this state of affairs, aud that the '2b per cent, decline in the price of silver has been more than made up in the in creased output of gold and other products. The trouble is due to the withering inlluence of Populism, and the Philadelphia Times pu's this apt inquiry: "If the effects of Populism have been so baleful as to reduce the credit of a State, the borrowi ng power of whose property once ranked next to New York, to a condition of actual paralysis, what guarantee has Georgia or North Carolina or Illinois or any other State. North, South, East or West, of immunity from a like destruction of credit and pros perity in the case of Populist success?" North Carolina cannot afford to give cause for the slightest suspicion that she is tending to wards Populism. The election of a single Populist to any office would be a real misfortune to the state. ANOTHER 1 1 LA K 1 1 R OM. The Kaleigh Xetrs nM Obxrrcer of yesterday publishes the fol lowing open card, which ex plains itself. It is the more in teresting and significant and im pressive in that it comes from one of the most prominent and influential Populists of Wake county who did not consent to and cannot stand, will not sub mit to the machine measures of Boss Butler in his effort, through fusion, to elevate Republicans to office in North Carolina and him self to a seat in the IT. S. Senate: T Wham lf May Cancer )i: I hear with regret, that some unscrupulous person or persons are circulating the report that I have "sold out to the Democratic party." To this I must say these parties have drawn on their own evil imagination. No one of my personal friends of the Demo cratic party, have ever by word, act, or intimation sought to pur chase my vote, or influence me in the course I purpose pursuing in the coming election. I am glad to say that I think they have a higher regard for my feelings, than ihi persons, (the authors of the report) who are posing as the friends of the Ycople. It affords me pleasure to think that whatever may be thought of others to the contrary, there is a marked and growing disposition among the people to be governed in elections by the character and special fitness of the candidate. The best cause may be lost, because of unsuit able aud unreliable men, such as some are proven to be on the combination ticket of this county, and if my reiusal to support a seducer, a defaulter, an embez zler and ballot box manipulator be treason, then I must plead guilty; and if it is the principles of the People's -party to elevate such men to places of honor. trust and responsibility, then I must renounce my allegiance to the party, aud would advise every other crood member to do likewise. Geo. Li. Tonnopeski. RaoKet store, East Centre street. FiR-htler& Kern's Old Stand. Where Ave keep everything' at very low prices suitable to the low price of cotton. We bnv for cash and therefore buy " . i . . i i , i cheap. W sen lor cam anu mere fore sell at small y rolit. MILLINERY TOYS A SPECIALTY - Give us a call And wo will treat you risfht. S. Gohn & Go. RUIN IN POPULIST RULE. A Statement hy the Denver liusi iness men's League. Dknvek, Oct. 17. The Busi ness Men'sLeague of Denver, the leading commercial and trade or ganization of this city, com posed of Democrats, Republicans and former Populists, number-ing-5,000 in all, has issued the following address, portraying the effect of Populist rule in this State: "Populist rule in Colorado has been like a devastating forest fire. By destroying our credit, which th lif" of oiyjyvvv-o if- h?s -i Tin rti'l fv th'itn IvMn not. i'-ss tluiti :','"." "M"" ' f valu iuj iii this St;ite. VlonMfo's crfrditj was so high tho,t the borrowing power of her property ranked in the last census next to that of New York. This borrowing ixnver, she mainspring of our splendid progress, has been temporarily paralyzed by the ac cidental ascendency of a party which stands for reputation and fiatism. is not a true friend to hard silver money. "The property of Denver was assessed for sHML,W0,u0o, and worth three times that sum when the Populists came into power. Notwithstanding the city's inev itably brilliant future, the aver age selling price of this prop erty, pending the overthrow of Waiteism. has shrunk two thirds. "Silver has declined ouly 2b per cent., or less than the aver age products of the other States, while the increased value and output of gold, together with our bountiful crops, have more than made up the shortage. There fore, not oyer one half of our shrinkage of values can be charged to the panic and the uni versal depreciation resulting from the gold staudard. The other one-half of loss is due di rectly and wholly to the destruc tion of confidence by Populist misrule. 'So withering has this been that at the present moment, even a gold mine cannot borrow 1 on 3 worth of gold actually in sight with which to extract that ore and send it to the smelter. Lenders are anxious to reap the rich harvest offered, but hold aloof until the elcetion in No vember decides whether wo are to have anarchy or civilized gov ernment. Two hundred thou sand farmers from the drought stricken States to the east of us ai-e anxious to come here and farm by irrigation, but under Populist rule we can borrow no more money with which to huiid irrigating canals. Manufactur- ng is most profitable here, but capital shuns populism as a pes tilence. "The people of Colorado are oyal to their contracts, and they are lighting up the,camp-nres on every hill for a campaign, re gardless of party, which is to overthrow populism and re-es tablish the credit of the State.' Signed by the executive com mittee of the Denver Business Men's League: William H. James, president; John E. L.eet, secretary; Philip Feldhauser, J. J. McGmmty, .J. S. Appel, W. J. Barker, Ed ward JMonash, Charles!1'. Wilson, Wolfe Londoner, F. F. Struby, W. A. L. Cooper, M. J: McNam- ara, James 11 Blood, Charles n. Smith. i Where lo They Stand,. The Tariff Reform movement m Argentina nas Deen stimulated by the action of the United States, aud the Congress has now under consideration a bill male g a general reduction in cus toms duties. The people of Ar gentma have found out that the tariff is a tax and they can see no advantage m the many payin higher prices for the benefit of the few. Argentina imports very largely from the United States agricul tural implements, pine lumber and refined petroleum. The chief of her exports that reach this country is wool, but our manu facturers have hitherto had to pay such a high duty upon it that they could not send back the manufactured goods in competi tion with those of Europe. The Argentine Minister declares that under the new tariff he can now buy fine cloth here as advantageously as in Paris, and he predicts a great increase of commercial intercourse be tween the two countries as ,the result of breaking down the tar iff barriers. That suoh must be the natural effect of our new policy cannot reasonably be doubted by any logical mind. The truth may be obscured for a time, but it will force itself upon general recog' nition before another election comes around. And yet Maj. Grant is trying to create a high tariff sentiment in his speeches in this county- Grant, the Populist candidate for the State Senate! Where do the Pops stand on this question? The Crusier Raleigh. Washington, Oct. 18. Pres-j ident Henry O. Havemeyer and Secretary John E Searles, of the American Sugar Refining company, came over from New York to-day and were arraigned this afternoon in the District Su preme court on indictments charging them ith refusing to answer certain questions before the Senate Sugar Investigating committee. Bail was fixed at 5,000 in each instance. A plea of "not guilty" was entered in each case, with leave to with draw that plea and demur within fjffoor flsvp, Aftor tb'f? pT-0-f-rVHng t.hf 'lot'ond'HUt?-- I "ft. for Now Y.vk. J r i;er A llu !. i. Seymour, of Seymour. Bros A:. oung, 's arrested in ew York to-d"ay on a bench war rant and bailed in $5,000 to an swer a similar indictment. Without issuing a direct order, Secretary Smith has allowed it to be understood that all em ployes of the Interior Depart ment may go home to vote at the coming elections. There are a number of employes in the In terior Department who intend to avail themselves of his privilege. The Superintendent of the rail way mail service has issued an order allowing all postal clerks to go and vote who can get away, without serious detriment to the service. The naval inspection board, of which Commodore Selfridge is president, returned to Washing ton to-day from Hampton Koads, after spending two days in a thorough test of the new Gov ernment built cruiser Kaleigh, built in the Norfolk navy yard, with the result which far ex ceeded the most sanguine expec tations. Until the formal, report is made io Secretary Herbert the exact details of the test cannot be made public, but the members of the board are enthusiastic over the performance of the ves sel and assert that the Kaleigh conclusively demonstrated the fact the Government can build warships equal in every respect and superior to some constructed at private establishments On Monday the .Raleigh was taken outside the Capes of the Chesa peake aud manoeuvred in the At lantic at full speed ahead and astern, her guns were fired and every effort was made to discover weakness without success. 1 he vessel is a sister ship of the Cin cinnati, but it is said to have cost 150,000 less than that ves sel. Then and Now. A couple weeks ago the editor of the Maxton Blade, a colored man, gave some very good rea- sons why tne colored men oi North Carolina should not sup port the fusion between the ma nipulators of the Republican ma chine, and among other reasons cited the fact that the Republi can bosses who were most active in bringing about the fusion were the men who were at the bottom of the movement a few years ago to drive the colored man out of theRepublicaa party andorgan- lzeawhiteiman sKepubiican party The movement fizzled out simply because these Republican leaders couldn't carry it out. He cited the fact also that Marion Butler who is now appealing for colored sup port for his fusion, opposed the building of schools for colored children: and he might have called attention to the fact, also, that Marion Butler, who is now trying to train with the negro, calls his two papers the Cauca sian, or the White Man, in con tradistinction to the negro. Capt. W. H. Kitchin is now doing some missionary work for the combi nation freak. What he thought about the negro in. 1884 is told by the Raleigh Nines 0 Observer, which produces an extract from his speech opening the campaign at Raleigh thus: "But with all mv Democracy, I stand here to-night as the advo cate of a government by white men, by the virtue, by the intelli eence of this country; I stand here to-night to appeal to no color ed man for his support. I feel honestly that I have no right to appeal to him. I feel that the great God who rules the destinies of nations has made the diner ence between him and me, and I will never, so help me God, un dertake to reconstruct the works of God himself. Now I say to the colored men do the best you can For years 1 have talked txx you and I have persuaded you for what I thought was the best; but you have disregarded my advice. I have always told you we could do without you, and I tell you here to-day, in the name of com mon sense and in the name of heaven and in the presence of the angels, if there be such things, that toe can and tcilldo tvilhmt you. These, gentlemen, are my ideas and my notions about the way to conduct tnis cauipaigji, x can to the West, and I can go to the East,andlcan go to the middle parts of the State, and J can ap peal to my own Olooel and my oien race to stand by the Democratic party, the only . party in this country, the only party for down-trodden and oppressed hu manity, and I can do it with the best grace, and I believe I have the smiles of heaven upon me. But, my fellow-citizens, how can I appeal to the white brother to stand by me, apdthen turn to the men who have been against me all my life? I cannot doit con sistently, and I will not do it, so help me God. I came from an other breed and race." Capt. Kitchin is now a candi date for the State Senate and ex pects to be elected, if elected at rV, hv the vctos of th. vrr moris for whos'i i-o-oj t-n,tion Vk- said, ton year.-;jro h' would iiV'M'. So help huii ud. if ;. J. ov: what is the ngro goiuir to io aoout at? CANDIDATES AT PROVIDENCE. The comity Democratic candi dates held forth at Providence church yesterday and the occa sion was made a regular old fashioued Democratic love feast good speeches, good barbecue, good feeling and a real good time generally prevailed and those who had heretofore been inclin ed to go off with the Third party that were of the assemblage yes terday were canvinced of their error and are now even more strongly inclined the other way. The fact of the matter is, the refusal of the Rep-Pop combine to meet aud divide time in joint debate with the Democratic county canvassers has done more to convince thinking people of their utter lack of principle and show up in all its hideousness the mongrel crew that constitute the confusiou ticket than even a joint canvass could have ac complished. The honest-hearted Populists of the county now realize the confusiou gaug flay are and will join with the Democrats in burying the mctlej' crowd be neath an avalanche of votes on the (ith of November. The speeches of Hon. B. F. Ay cock and our young friend Mr. Jno. R. Overman, Jr., who re presented this county in the Leg islature of "H9-'90, together with the other candidates, accomplish ed telling results for the Novem ber election. BUCK KITCHIN IN COLDSIJORO Well, Buck Kitchin has beeu heard from again. He spoke in this city yesterday. Three Pops occupied the rostrum with him, viz: Dr. W. P. Exum, W. H. Caldwell and another whom the reporter did not recognize. The burden of Buck's speech was, that this country is all out of gear, and how he would regulate it. The great mistake (?) that Presi dent Cleveland has made is that he has never consulted Buck as to how to ruu the country and Buck evidently feels slighted and is trying to even up with Grover by cussing out his ad ministration and kicking out of the Democratic party. But Buck exploded the main issue of the Populists, viz: "Free silver." He told his hearers that "for the United States to adopt free sil ver wTould not do any good un less the whole world should comedown to silver money: that to effect this a monetary con- ress of the nations was neces- . TT11 " A 1 T A sary. mis is tne uemocrauc position exactly. He told his hearers "that the Democratic party does not have a thing to do with the low price of cotton, that the price is fixed in Liverpool, and the United States aud the Democratic party combined cannot change it." In fact, Buck made such a speech that he should start a fourth party to accomodate his ideas of politi cal economy; for he explodes com pletely and by name all the pet heories olthe Populists; tie ad mits the cardinal doctrines of Democracy; he curses the "in fernal xankees;' he counsels, in the very next breath, brotherly Jove, peace, &c, and over all and above all- he rants at Cleve land unfairly, unjustly, and veno mously charges him with being the author of the people's woes. Yes, Buck should start a new party. We have long wondered what Buck is good for, every one has a mission m life, . you know; and Buck has been such a failure in everything he has thus far tried: and is such a failure now as on expouuder of Popu list theories, that probably he is about to hit upon his true mis slon in life, in the very gloaming of his long and checkered eareer viz the organization ot a Fourth Party, which in honor of its founder might be properly styled the "Kitchen Party As 1o the general tenor of Buck's speech here yesterday, in its bearings upon the political parties and political issues of the day, it reminded one . very lor cibly of the old adage of the snake trail: It Viggled in aad wiggled out, And left the matte t still in doubt. Whether the snake that made the track -Was sroinj' North orcoiaing back." EDUCATIONAL. Reformation of the Public School System demanded by the Teach ers and School Officers of Wayne and Lenoir Counties. At a joint meeting of the teach ers' Associations of -Wayne and Lenoir counties, held at Seven Springs October 6, 1894, and af ter a discussion of the present needs of the public schools of North Carolina, a committee was appointed to draft resolutions expressing the sense of the meet ing. The committee submitted the following which were unani- ifTo)li.lv P7fp1n7: ,.'.-(-. I ti'rtt III' M'-'l. f i public .!. mM.-- of No' t h C;roitin l'MiJci,ni t..lv following reforms: 1. County I a t e 1 1 i go n t duper vision. Superintendents should sufficient salaries to at be paid tract competent men to under take the duties of this office and to justify their giving their whole time to the public schools. Their duties should.be not only toexam ine applicants for positions to teach, but to visit the schools and instruct the teachers. 2. Six months' continuous session for every public school. 3. The abolition of the present system -of school committeemen and to have seven school commit teemen for each township who shall select for all the schools in the township only sueh teachers as the County Superintendent shall commend. 4. To abolish the third grade certificate, and to Termit no teacher to hold a second grade certificate longer than two years If at the expiration of that time a teacher cannot secure a first grade certificate he should re ceive no certificate at all. ."). To provide an institute of one week or longer for the teachers of every county at least once every two years. To re quire all public school teachers of the county (or committee) to attend all institutes, aud to issue no first grade certificates for two years, to teachers that fail to at tend the institute. 6. To fix the legal minimum salary of a first 'grade at 35 a month, the minimum legal sal ary of a second grade teacher at N23 a month, and the maximum legal salary of a second grade teacher at ?30 a month. 7, In order to necessarjr reforms secure those more money is needed, and therefore the Gen eral Assembly should increase the public school tax so that a public school may be sustained for six months in every district after the manner described in the above resolutions. 8, To amend the law so that com munities of one or more contig u :us school districts, or a town ship, or a county, or a municipal corporation, may more easily vote upon the question of an increase of local tax for the support of public schools, and to allow communities to levy a local tax for public schools of as much as three mills on property and 90 cents a poll, in addition to the general tax. Jlesolced further, That a copy these resolutions be sent to the school Superintendent of every county with the request that they be communicated to the teachers and their co-operation asked to secure these reforms at the hands of the next General Assembly. H. T. Jones, Ch'm, L. D. Howell, Secy, E. P. Mangum, T. B. Parker, JOS. KlNSEY, N. B. Whitfield, Com Another Train Robbery. Four Worth, Texas, Oct. 19. -The west-bound Texas & Paci fic through ex press train for California, leaving here" at 9,40 this morning, was robbed about noon near Gordon, seventy miles west of here. The robbers se cured about 20,000 from the Pacific express Company, and but for their iuability to open the safe of the Texas & Pacific Coal Company, containing $20 000 m gold, would have made a better haul. Four men did the work. They came upon a sec tion gang about noon, covered them with Winchesters and forced them to spread the rails and flag the on-coming train. The engineer and hreman were then lined up with . the section srang and guarded, while two men entered the car and covered the messenger before he was aware of their presence. Mes senger Marshall was ordered to open the safe containing the money of the Texas and Pacific Coal, Company. Telling them he could not do this they seized a pick and ruined the combination, remarking: "if we can't get the money those d miners at Thurber shant." The robbers fled southward and no trace of them has yet been secured. Rewards aggregating $1,000 have been offered for their arrest. The money secured was taken from the railway safe : DON' T FOOL WITH QUACKS. As the Wilmington Star savs. there is no section of the United States to-day where the people as a whole are more prosperous than they are in the South, and we might go so far as to say that there is no section in which thoy are as prosperous. Prosperity does not consist altogether iii having money or the equivalent of money to one's credit, for the man who has the comforts of life around him, lives well, owes no man anything that he cannot pay, lives in his own house and on hi.-- wn binl. urn! is alwuvs of 'tl High to .-111 "rtlMl fifing i 1 - in 1 1 ;t i ri 1 : i 1 1 liis iinli'iMMMivni-i is in intents pur osvs on t(j? ;iii" :iiiiI :i nil Mil '1 rung or prosperity, it he didn't have seventy-five cents in his pocket. He is like the man who has a gold mine on his land from which be can take whenever he needs it as much gold ns he needs to meet his wants. We have known just such men in North Carolina, men who worked farms on gold mines, and used the mine as a sort of a savings bank to draw from if they should hap pen to need more money than the farm yielded. But the South is more than ordinarily prosperous this year, because she has abundant crops, the largest cotton crop and corn crop ever produced, the cotton crop rather too large, if any thing, but the corn crop none too large, for there will be use and demand for all of it. And this corn was grown on the same farjns that produced this enor mous crop of cotton. Cotton is down in price, it is true, but corn is up and the prob abilities are that on the whole, the gain from the corn wTill more than offset the loss from the fall in cotton. The all cotton grower may feel somewhat blue at the outlook for him, but his neighbor who exercised wise discretion and raised his foodstuffs, with some to spare, does not and need not feel so blue, nor blue at all. But they have all learned by the esults ot this years labor the mighty possibilities of the South as an agricultural section, and so have others learned it, a fact which will prove of inestimable value to the South, for it dissi pates the delusion that so many labored under, that the South was little else than a great cot ton field and adapted only to the raising ot cotton. The solid condition of the South as a section is being recog nized generally and is being freely commented upon by trade and other journals in the North, and this of itself will add to the prosperity of the South for it will have a great influence on turning capital and people this way. There is one feature of the condition which they all dwell miou and that is that dur ing all the late financial upheavels and business collopse the South held her own and showed the fewest financial failures and scarcely any business collapses, which shows plainly that Avhile the South might have less capital within command t han some other sections, she did business on a more substantial basis. Another feature which they comment upon favorably is the fact that the relations between the em ployers and the employed in the South are so good that strikes are of very rare oc currence and never of a genera character, that the labor agita tor and anarchistic firebrands have made but little headway in this section, which encourages capital to come and stay. Watching the signs of the times as we do, noting the pro- i nvic - -fVio J".rnlli ic ninl.-inrr in 1 I ' i " 1. V . . .1 111.) . V V V . I . 1 1 .1 lUUILlllf. 1 I. J various branches of human in dustries, aud the recognition this receives trom those who not many years ago could not" be persuaded that there were such latent-possibilities in this section, it is our firm and. honest belief that there is no section of this country to-day where the peopl as a whole are as prosperous or where the prospect for the com ing years is as bright and en couraging. There are some who may not feel as well off as they would like to be. who have been taught to believe that prosperity and wealth can be created and dis tributed by legislative enact ment, and by methods that were never dreamed of since the first settlement of America until the past few years, when a new school of statesmen, which es caped the lunatic asylums, came to the front in politics, These are all the South has to fear, the only obstacle that may come be tween her and increasing pros perity. Other States have tried these kind of statesmen and have paid the penalty. Colorado tried them, and the result has been a deprecation of 300,000,000 in the values of the State. Kansas tried them and the result has been the withdrawal of millions' of dollars from that State. Oregon has tried them with similar re sults. South Carolina has tried them and progress stopped at the border. These people thought there was something the mat ter with them, and there was, but they made the mistake of putting themselves in the care of quacks who had a formula which they declared was a pana cea for all the ills to which the body public was liable, or from which it suffered. The patients swallowed the doses given them and got s orse and worse. Their experience should be a warning to others not to fool with quacks, h ud a.1-- iii iiim ri iii iir-.i im! ti.-: H-i To rMl- iti-li n- i toj.M hM Th'.M'C III'' mil' t tiie. jU:. iis rotating around North . Carolina now, trying to make people be lieve that they can create pros- erity and wealth by a radical evolution m the existing order of thinrs. and bv ijrnorhur all the laws that govern in the world ot business and ot sense. Look out for the quacks, the cranks ind 11 to trick d&magogues. They are your worst enemies, and the only threatening impediment to the Youth's prosperity. j" 1 1 1 : risi: or jai'ax. Amid the confused and contra dictory despatches from the ast, a few well-established facts stand out as of the greatest im portance, not only to the two ountries directly concerned, but to the whole civilized world as well. Japan las proved that ler soldiers and sailors are prac tically invincible against any thing like an equal force of Chi nese. The Japanese army is drilled and equipped as well as that of any European nation, while the . ravy is manned by brave sailors and officered by graduates of the best school in the world, our own Annapolis iVcademy. Corea is practically now in tne hands ot Japan; and it is only terms of a question of what submission will be granted to China if it be true, as reported, that she has already sued for peaev. It has been thus far a fight of the swordfish and the whale: but now the great powers of Eu- ope, magnanimous sharks that they are, begin to protest and ry out that the whale must not be dismembered, or, at least, not unless they get some of the fat test slices. It is uncertain how Japan may take any advice from the great powers. Only one of them, Russia, is a very close neighbor whose auger might be dangerous. England will blus ter, as usual. She blustered tre mendously when the Japanese vessel of war sunk the transport ship "Kow-Shung" which, was flying the Brittish flag; but Japan did not blench a bit at .the lion's roar. In fact there is no reason why she should not be a match for the big bully of the world, if it came to hard blows. The wonderful advancement of Japan in a military direction is equalled by her progress in commercial and political life. No people in the world are so apt to imbibe new ideas and improve upon them. It is only a genera tion since they abandoned the feudal system which had pre vailed for centuries. To-day they have a representative form of government and all the civil ized appurtenances thereof. When Commodore Peary came, an un invited sruest, to the port of Yeddo, the Japanese saw a mod era man-of-war for the first time, and they made such good use of their eyes, that when the next one came it met a fairly good copy of the first, thoroughly equipped and armed, wjith even some improvements in minor matters of detail. As long as three hundred years before the visit of Peary, Ferdi nand Mendez Pinto told as won derful a case of Japanese imita tiveness, and was set down as a liar, forthwith.by people less in genious or painstaking. One of his comrades presented the nazaquim, or i'rince or tne is - -r . t a 1 T land of Tamxyman. with a "harquebuse" and showed him how to make ammunition for it Pinto tells the result, .in a sen tence whoso distinguishing lite rary merit is not that of concise ness: "Now the Nautaquim, taking pleasure in nothing s much as shooting in this harqbl'o, and his subjects perceiving that they crmld not content him better in anvthinsr than in this, whercwith he was so much delight?.". they took- a Tinttern ot the saV id har- vuebuse to make others by it. and the effect thereof was such, that before our departure, vhieh was five months and an half iJ t-er, there was six hundred of tl'T."1 made in the country; nay. I ,v i'l say more, that afterwards, nwv " ly. the last time that the ViccW Don Alphonso de Noronha seut me thither with a present to th' King rf B'ln-ri. v VpVTi happcTi ', in thviir I r. tlios1 of .Isqi (;tn ; tViviij'-") UijiJ inthi--ity Kin--ii.o, Ut-iiig lh- -hi!f ot tlmt l-iiuj:- uoiii, umt w-mv s.;v' ttiiriy thousand; whereui finding self to be much amazed, for it seemed impossible unto that this invention should tjply in such sort, certain iny that me. hantsof good credit assured ine that iu the whole island of Jap- an there were above three hun dred thousand harquebuses and that they alone had transported of them in the way of trade to the country of the Lcbuos, at six several times, to the number of five and twenty hundred; so that by the means of that one, which eimoto presented to the Nauta- quim, in acknowledgement ot trie honor and irood offices that he ad done him. as I have declared before, the country was filled with such abuudanceof them, as at this day there is not so small an hamlet but hath an hundred at the least; for as for cities and reat towns, they have them by thousands, whereby one may lerceive what the inclination of this people is, and how much more they are naturally addicted to the wars, wherein they take more delight than any other na tion that we know." Pinto found also, as every hon est traveller has since found. that "it is the custom of those of Japan to be exceedingly kind and courteous:" but he d not if it distinguish himself by the tesy of telling the exact when the Prince asked him were true, as the Chinese had far we the the part told him, that Portugal was arger than China, "which confirmed unto him:" and if King of Portugal had upon sea conquered the greatest of the world, "which also we averred to be so;" and, finally, if that King were so rich in gold and silver that he had above two thousand houses of it full to the very tops; "but thereunto we answered, that we could not tndy say the number of the houses, because the kingdom of Portu gal was so spacious, so abound ing with treasure, and so popu lous, as it was impossible to specify the same.' The Nautaquim may have only wlitely feigned to believe- those remarkable statements, or he may have accepted them as erenuine and so concluded that he could not have too many har quebuses on baud when the puis sant Portuguese should see fit to pay him a call in force. The world compelled Japan lo: swing into line with civilization," and it is too late now to expect any retracing oi tne inarcn. is All 1 k for China, the arrogant, un wieldy Eastern monster will have to follow in the same lino or adopt as a nation the one bar j bariau relic of Japan, harakiri. POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking pow der. Highest of all in leavening strength. Latest United Slates Government Food Report. ROYAL BAKING POWDER GO. 106 Wall St, N. Y. Gouon Storaoe- Owing to the low prices of cotton now prevailing, it may be of import ance to all who wish to hold cotton to know that we are prepared to store cotton on moderate terms and if de Hired make cash advances on same. 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Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.)
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Oct. 25, 1894, edition 1
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